feat: update channel definitions and dialogue categories for improved organization and clarity

Author: gitcoder89431

src/components/channel-badge.tsx

@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ import {
   Calculator,
   Dna,
   Scale,
-  Zap,
-  MessageCircle
+  Zap
 } from "lucide-react";
 
 interface Channel {
@@ -18,15 +17,16 @@ interface Channel {
 
 
 // Centralized channel definitions (matches channels-sidebar.tsx)
-export const CHANNELS: Record<string, Channel> = {
-  conversations: { id: "conversations", name: "Conversations", icon: MessageCircle, color: "#8b5cf6" },
-  biology: { id: "biology", name: "Biology", icon: Dna, color: "#f59e0b" },
-  physics: { id: "physics", name: "Physics", icon: Atom, color: "#3b82f6" },
-  mathematics: { id: "mathematics", name: "Mathematics", icon: Calculator, color: "#10b981" },
-  ethics: { id: "ethics", name: "Ethics", icon: Scale, color: "#ef4444" },
-  editorial: { id: "editorial", name: "Editorial", icon: Zap, color: "#ec4899" },
-  philosophy: { id: "philosophy", name: "Philosophy", icon: Brain, color: "#6b7280" }
-};
+const CHANNELS = {
+  editorial: { name: "Editorial", color: "#ec4899", icon: "⚡" },
+  biology: { name: "Biology", color: "#f59e0b", icon: "🧬" },
+  physics: { name: "Physics", color: "#3b82f6", icon: "⚛️" },
+  mathematics: { name: "Mathematics", color: "#10b981", icon: "🧮" },
+  ethics: { name: "Ethics", color: "#ef4444", icon: "⚖️" },
+  philosophy: { name: "Philosophy", color: "#a855f7", icon: "🤔" }
+} as const;
+
+type ChannelId = keyof typeof CHANNELS;
 
 interface ChannelBadgeProps {
   channelId: string;
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ export function ChannelBadge({
   showName = true,
   className
 }: ChannelBadgeProps) {
-  const channel = CHANNELS[channelId];
+  const channel = CHANNELS[channelId as ChannelId];
 
   if (!channel) {
     return null;
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ export function ChannelBadge({
       }}
     >
       {showIcon && (
-        <channel.icon className={iconSizeClasses[size]} />
+        <span className={iconSizeClasses[size]}>{channel.icon}</span>
       )}
       {showName && (
         <span className="font-medium">
@@ -90,5 +90,5 @@ export function ChannelBadge({
 
 // Simple helper for single channel display
 export function getChannelInfo(channelId: string) {
-  return CHANNELS[channelId] || null;
+  return CHANNELS[channelId as ChannelId] || null;
 }

src/components/channels-sidebar.tsx

@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ import {
   Calculator,
   Dna,
   Scale,
-  Zap,
-  MessageCircle
+  Zap
 } from "lucide-react";
 
 interface Channel {
@@ -23,7 +22,6 @@ interface Channel {
 // Base channel definitions (counts will be calculated dynamically)
 const baseChannels: Omit<Channel, 'count'>[] = [
   { id: "editorial", name: "Editorial", icon: Zap, color: "#ec4899" },
-  { id: "conversations", name: "Discussions", icon: MessageCircle, color: "#8b5cf6" },
   { id: "biology", name: "Biology", icon: Dna, color: "#f59e0b" },
   { id: "physics", name: "Physics", icon: Atom, color: "#3b82f6" },
   { id: "mathematics", name: "Mathematics", icon: Calculator, color: "#10b981" },
@@ -59,11 +57,6 @@ export function ChannelsSidebar({
     const content = article.content.toLowerCase();
     const title = article.frontmatter.title.toLowerCase();
 
-    // Conversations (highest priority for dialogues)
-    if (article.frontmatter.type === 'dialogue') {
-      return 'conversations';
-    }
-
     // Biology (high priority for evolution/life sciences)
     if (tags.some(tag => ['biology', 'evolution', 'life', 'natural-selection'].includes(tag.toLowerCase())) ||
         content.includes('evolution') || content.includes('darwin') || title.includes('evolution')) {
@@ -106,7 +99,6 @@ export function ChannelsSidebar({
   // Calculate automatic counts if articles are provided
   const channelCounts = articles.length > 0 ? (() => {
     const counts: Record<string, number> = {
-      conversations: 0,
       biology: 0,
       physics: 0,
       mathematics: 0,

src/components/recent-updates.tsx

@@ -15,31 +15,31 @@ interface RecentUpdate {
   slug: string;
 }
 
-// Mock data - in real app this would be generated from article dates
+// Recent updates - actual latest content from Atlas
 const recentUpdates: RecentUpdate[] = [
   {
     type: "new",
-    title: "Evolution from Field to Theory",
-    author: "Charles Darwin",
+    title: "When Ada Meets Shannon: Mathematical Method as Information Architecture",
+    author: "Ada Lovelace & Claude Shannon",
     time: "2h",
-    channel: "biology",
-    slug: "evolution-field-to-theory-darwin"
+    channel: "mathematics",
+    slug: "ada-shannon-information-mathematical-method-dialogue"
   },
   {
-    type: "trending",
-    title: "Consciousness Adaptation",
-    author: "Richard Feynman",
+    type: "new",
+    title: "When e Meets Einstein: The Exponential Geometry of Spacetime",
+    author: "e & Albert Einstein",
     time: "4h",
     channel: "physics",
-    slug: "consciousness-adaptation-feynman"
+    slug: "e-einstein-exponential-spacetime-dialogue"
   },
   {
-    type: "active",
-    title: "Cybernetic Governance",
-    author: "Elinor Ostrom & Norbert Wiener",
+    type: "trending",
+    title: "When π Meets e: The Infinite Dance of Computation and Story",
+    author: "π & e",
     time: "6h",
-    channel: "philosophy",
-    slug: "cybernetic-governance-commons-dialogue"
+    channel: "mathematics",
+    slug: "pi-e-infinity-computation-dialogue"
   }
 ];
 
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ export function RecentUpdates({ className }: RecentUpdatesProps) {
       {/* Updates List */}
       <div className="p-2 space-y-1">
         {recentUpdates.map((update, index) => {
-          const mainAuthor = update.author.split('&')[0].trim();
-          const persona = personaMap[mainAuthor];
+          const authors = update.author.split('&').map(a => a.trim());
+          const isDialogue = authors.length > 1;
 
           // Determine correct route based on channel/content type
           const getArticleRoute = (slug: string) => {
@@ -125,19 +125,38 @@ export function RecentUpdates({ className }: RecentUpdatesProps) {
 
                 {/* Author and Channel Tag - bottom row */}
                 <div className="flex items-center justify-between">
-                  {/* Author */}
-                  <div className="flex items-center gap-2">
-                    {persona ? (
-                      <PersonaBadge
-                        imageSrc={persona.imageSrc}
-                        size="sm"
-                      />
+                  {/* Author badges */}
+                  <div className="flex items-center gap-1">
+                    {isDialogue ? (
+                      // Show both personas for dialogues
+                      <>
+                        {authors.map((author, authorIndex) => {
+                          const persona = personaMap[author];
+                          return persona ? (
+                            <PersonaBadge
+                              key={authorIndex}
+                              imageSrc={persona.imageSrc}
+                              size="sm"
+                            />
+                          ) : (
+                            <div key={authorIndex} className="w-6 h-6 rounded-full bg-neutral-200 dark:bg-neutral-700" />
+                          );
+                        })}
+                      </>
                     ) : (
-                      <div className="w-6 h-6 rounded-full bg-neutral-200 dark:bg-neutral-700" />
+                      // Single author
+                      (() => {
+                        const persona = personaMap[authors[0]];
+                        return persona ? (
+                          <PersonaBadge
+                            imageSrc={persona.imageSrc}
+                            size="sm"
+                          />
+                        ) : (
+                          <div className="w-6 h-6 rounded-full bg-neutral-200 dark:bg-neutral-700" />
+                        );
+                      })()
                     )}
-                    <span className="text-xs text-neutral-600 dark:text-neutral-400 truncate">
-                      {mainAuthor}
-                    </span>
                   </div>
 
                   {/* Channel tag */}

src/content/dialogues/ada-turing-modular-manifolds-dialogue.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: "When Lovelace Meets Turing: Modular Manifolds as Computational Architecture"
 date: "2025-09-28"
 tags: ["ada-lovelace", "alan-turing", "modularity", "manifolds", "analytical-engine", "computation", "interfaces", "contracts", "epistemology"]
-channel: "conversations"
+channel: "mathematics"
 summary: "Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing explore how modular computational architectures reflect deeper geometric and epistemological principles, bridging mechanical calculation with modern machine learning"
 type: "dialogue"
 tier: "free"

src/content/dialogues/aristotle-feynman-categorical-ai-dialogue.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: "When Aristotle Meets Feynman: Categories as AI Architecture"
 date: "2025-09-26"
 tags: ["aristotle", "feynman", "categories", "ai-architecture", "neural-networks", "pattern-recognition", "classification", "systematic-philosophy", "neurosymbolic-systems", "logical-reasoning"]
-channel: "conversations"
+channel: "mathematics"
 summary: "Aristotle and Feynman explore how categorical thinking and systematic classification could inform neural network architecture and pattern recognition AI"
 type: "dialogue"
 tier: "free"

src/content/dialogues/borges-turing-infinity-computation-dialogue.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: "When Borges Meets Turing: Infinity and Computation as Literary Architecture"
 date: "2025-09-27"
 tags: ["borges", "turing", "infinity", "computation", "literature", "algorithms", "labyrinths", "undecidability", "narrative-theory", "meaning-generation", "bounded-constraints", "interpretive-spaces"]
-channel: "conversations"
+channel: "mathematics"
 summary: "Jorge Luis Borges and Alan Turing explore how infinite literary structures and computational theory intersect to create narratives that produce meaning without exhausting it"
 type: "dialogue"
 tier: "free"

src/content/dialogues/cybernetic-governance-commons-dialogue.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: "Cybernetic Governance of the Commons"
 date: "2024-09-20"
 tags: ["governance", "cybernetics", "commons", "institutional-design"]
-channel: "conversations"
+channel: "ethics"
 summary: "A conversation between Elinor Ostrom and Norbert Wiener on balancing transparency and autonomy in institutional design"
 type: "dialogue"
 tier: "premium"

src/content/dialogues/darwin-turing-dialogue.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: "A Conversation Across Centuries: Darwin and Turing on Intelligence"
 date: "2025-09-21"
 tags: ["evolution", "computation", "darwin", "turing", "artificial_intelligence", "dialogue"]
-channel: "conversations"
+channel: "biology"
 summary: "A dialogue exploring computation in biology and the evolutionary foundations of artificial intelligence."
 type: "dialogue"
 tier: "free"

src/content/dialogues/darwin-turing-evolution-computation-dialogue.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: "When Darwin Meets Turing: Evolution and Computation as Learning Architecture"
 date: "2025-09-27"
 tags: ["darwin", "turing", "evolution", "computation", "learning-architecture", "selection-algorithms", "meta-learning", "fitness-landscapes", "neurosymbolic-systems", "universal-computation"]
-channel: "conversations"
+channel: "biology"
 summary: "Charles Darwin and Alan Turing explore how evolutionary selection and computational learning represent manifestations of the same underlying information-processing principles"
 type: "dialogue"
 tier: "free"

src/content/dialogues/fuller-da-vinci-aesthetic-mechanics-dialogue.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: "When Fuller Meets Da Vinci: Aesthetic Mechanics as Structural Intelligence"
 date: "2025-09-27"
 tags: ["fuller", "da-vinci", "aesthetic-mechanics", "tensegrity", "structural-intelligence", "information-geometry", "design-optimization", "architectural-beauty", "mathematical-elegance", "geodesic-design"]
-channel: "conversations"
+channel: "mathematics"
 summary: "Buckminster Fuller and Leonardo da Vinci explore how mathematical elegance and structural efficiency create beauty across design, architecture, and biology"
 type: "dialogue"
 tier: "free"